Free diagnostic practice
AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
The AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate certification (DEA-C01) is designed for data professionals who build and maintain data pipelines, manage data storage, and ensure data governance on AWS
- 130 min
- 72% to pass
- 65 bank questions
- 4 domains
certilumExam syllabus, organized by domain
The official Amazon Web Services blueprint, with the real weight each domain carries on test day.
Try a real question
Answer one question from the live bank. Grading happens on our servers, so the answer key never reaches the page.
Try a real question
Sample AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam question
Answer this question the same way you would on exam day. No sign-up needed — one random question, three tries to swap it out.
The snippet defines a pattern to extract a numeric value. What is this CloudWatch feature called?
{
"filterName": "UnauthorizedAccess",
"filterPattern": "[..., AccessDenied, ...]",
"metricTransformations": [
{
"metricName": "AccessDeniedCount",
"metricNamespace": "Security",
"metricValue": "1"
}
]
}Exam facts at a glance
Every figure below comes from the certification record or from the question bank itself.
- Time limit
- 130 minutes
- Passing score
- 72%
- Domains
- 4
- Questions in our bank
- 65
- Level
- ASSOCIATE
- Measured complexity
- 2.2 / 10
- Question mix
- 23 single · 23 multi · 19 interactive
Where the hard questions actually are
We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.
- Data Governance and Security14 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
36% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive
- Data Ingestion and Orchestration17 questions · complexity 2.6/10 · Gentle
35% multi-select · 18% scenario · 29% interactive
- Data Processing and Transformation17 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive
- Data Storage and Data Management17 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive
Read the questions before you take them
The question bank with the correct answer and a written explanation for every item.
Frequently asked questions
What you need to know before attempting the AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate certification.